A weekly round-up of London’s rail transport news…
London Underground
The RMT union has confirmed a two day strike by Waterloo and City line workers will take place early next week – even though only 3 workers voted for it. LBC
Study suggests London Underground may be ‘too fast’ BBC News
A busy road in Rickmansworth is to close for four weeks while London Underground repair a 127-year-old bridge. Watford Observer
TfL to decide on extension of Alstom’s Northern Line contract RTM
Crossrail
Celebrities join fight to save Soho’s Curzon cinema from Crossrail 2 The Guardian
Anything but boring – Women in Health and Safety at Crossrail SHP
Mainline/Overground
Southern services from Croydon cancelled after smoldering cable at Battersea depot Local Guardian
HS2 planners warn trains may terminate in the suburbs as Euston redevelopment is pushed back Telegraph
Hertfordshire County Council’s transport chief has written to Thameslink after complaints that the services from London Kings Cross were disrupted on Sunday, September 20. Watford Observer
Southeastern trains disrupted after downpours flood railway lines near Lower Sydenham NewsShopper
Charity workers transform station platform into thriving vegetable patch and garden Evening Standard
The rebirth of the Great Western Railway Great Western Railway
Miscellaneous
TfL website in the cloud – why and how TfL Blog
Fetishist Banned From Tube Over Foot Fondling LBC
Camilla Barnard creates a life-size wooden London Underground station CreativeReview
Inside Shoreditch’s Disused Tube Trains IanVisits
TfL has rubbished claims that the Night Tube would benefit only the richest of Londoners, insisting it will support thousands of jobs across the capital. CityAM
Sir Peter Hendy: The Exit Interview London Reconnections
TfL board appoints Mike Brown as London’s new transport commissioner MayorWatch
And finally, I Took a Clairvoyant to London’s ‘Haunted’ Crossrail Plague Pit and She Started Crying Vice
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The image above is from Jan 2011: Hobbs End tube station – made from Lego
” … rebirth of the Great Western Railway”
What utter cobblers, I’m afraid.
A publicity puff by a Train Operating Company, actually, though I don’t doubt they will “Inherit” the self-aggrandisment & arrogant air of superiority that the old “real” GWR had, more’s the pity.
And, unless they “paint” their coaches chocolate-&-cream, it won’t even look right, will it?
Excuse my cynicism ….